Senior Business Analyst

Job Summary

The successful candidate will be part of the global credit market Technology team covering Corporate Finance, Equities and Credit Trading working initially on Equities Trading platform delivery focusing Derivatives, and CBs for Transaction reporting and related downstream integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Support users as required.
• Ensure requirements are specified in a manner suitable for the intended audiences – understandable and unambiguous.
• Manage requirements from initiation to closure by working with business stakeholders and technology delivery teams.
• Identify and engage stakeholders, define Responsible/Accountable/Consulted/Informed (RACI) matrix suitable for the scope assigned.
• Lead discussion with the project team to identify actions and steps required to achieve business goals and needs.
• Develop Business Requirement as JIRA backlog, establish traceability to business vision and objectives, act as SME for users.
• Obtain stakeholder buy-in and sign-off on business requirements.
• Adhere to change management standards & procedures, including documenting and capturing all artefacts (Requirements, FSDs, Data Dictionaries, Signoffs, Minutes of meetings) required by project governance.

Skills and Experience

• The candidate must have at least 12+ years of relevant experience:
• With banks or product companies with strong business analysis skills
• Delivering data (reference, market, trade/events/cash) related scopes in equity related project
• Relevant experiences in financial markets or corporate finance technology covering:
  • business analysis in an agile setting
  • Gathering requirements and writing clear functional specifications / stories and getting them delivered
  • Delivering interface analysis and data modelling
  • Translating requirements / business problems into a clear set of technical specifications forming a solution
  • Managing and removing impediments and providing pro-active day-to-day support to users across key owned / supported systems / interfaces.

Qualifications

• Ability to work with clear strategy, provide clarity and facilitate discussions to reach consensus/business decisions.
• Good problem-solving capabilities and execution
• Ability to drive continuous improvement.
• Strong scope and accountability management
• Strong regular communication highlighting impediments and requesting help where required / reporting to management on progress.
• Good understanding of Equity and Derivatives products front-to-back
• Good knowledge of Financial Market processes (Trade processing, Life cycling, Risk, back office, etc…).